📝 Selected Papers
(* indicates equal contribution, # indicates corresponding author)
Publications
AAAI 2025

Fusing Pruned and Backdoored Models: Optimal Transport-based Data-free Backdoor Mitigation
Weilin Lin, Li Liu#, Jianze Li, Hui Xiong
- One of the few data-free defense strategies against backdoor attacks.
- First adaptation of OT and model fusion on backdoor defense.
The Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2025
NeurIPS 2024

Weilin Lin, Li Liu#, Shaokui Wei, Jianze Li, Hui Xiong
- New insights on unlearning weight change and backdoor activeness.
- Propose an effective defense strategy using reinitialization and fine-tuning.
Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Vancouver, Canada, 2024
WWW 2023
Autodenoise: Automatic data instance denoising for recommendations, Weilin Lin, Xiangyu Zhao#, Yejing Wang, Yuanshao Zhu, Wanyu Wang.KDD 2022
AdaFS: Adaptive feature selection in deep recommender system, Weilin Lin, Xiangyu Zhao#, Yejing Wang, Tong Xu, Xian Wu.
Preprints
Arxiv 2023
A comprehensive survey on segment anything model for vision and beyond, Chunhui Zhang, Li Liu#, Yawen Cui, Guanjie Huang, Weilin Lin, Yiqian Yang, Yuehong Hu